Word: transom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief pitch for funds at the end of his televised foreign policy speech on Sept. 30 brought in $300,000, or more than twice the cost of the network air time. A similar appeal in his speech on crime Oct. 12 also stimulated sizable mail contributions. Over-the-transom donations, averaging $3,000 a day just a few weeks ago, were averaging $35,000 a day last week...
...Sceptre in 1958 - after barely beating Mosbacher's older, slower Vim in the final U.S. trials. That was the year that Mosbacher invented the "tail chasing" start. While the two boats were jockeying for position, Bus kept Vim's bow practically on top of Columbia's transom. Columbia could neither jibe nor tack without fouling Vim. Not until Mosbacher broke off for the starting line could Cunningham swing into action. By then, Vim was precious seconds in the lead...
Last week Gretel was back in the water with her new look-sharper in the bow, smaller in the keel, wider in the beam. All her crew got was the same old look: a view of Dame Panic's transom. Five times the two boats raced, and five times Pattie won-by margins ranging from 2 min. 12 sec. to 5 min. 22 sec. Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause...
Designing a faster twelve-meter America's Cup yacht is a little like trying to improve on a perfect circle. The twelve-meter formula is so old and so restrictive that reports of "major breakthroughs" in design usually turn out to involve a new shape for the transom, say, or a mast that is stepped an inch fore or aft of usual. But Warwick Hood, the Down Under architect who designed Australia's new America's Cup challenger Dame Pattie, insists that he actually has hit on something new. And maybe...
...schools' careful calculation of potential givers, plenty of money still comes in, as Fred J. Lauerman, a University of Minnesota fund director, puts it, "over the transom." Florence Dailey of Rochester, N.Y., a stockholder in Eastman Kodak, left an estate of $19 million to Notre Dame and Georgetown when she died last year. No official from either school had ever met her, and except for the fact that she was a Catholic, no one has yet discovered her special attraction to the two universities. When the University of Redlands began a fund drive in 1965, an alumnus...